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~milf_god

Thanks for giving your insight ~inquiry!

I think I can say I definitely know how you feel when it comes to being born at the very beginning of a new generation and just missing another (seemingly better off) one. I just missed being a millenial by literally 6 months, and the day I learned I was considered "Gen Z" I was MORTIFIED. Like...please do not group me with those crazy kids...they do not even know what a VHS is, let alone how to work one. I'm not saying Millenials are all that, but I'd much rather be that than Gen Z anyday.

I too also wonder if childhood nostalgia has a role to play in the way were perceive different time periods due to our blissful ignorance as children. Like, there are times now when I sometimes wish it was the 2000s again (also due to the fact that 2000s nostalgia has also been on the rise these days), and reminisce about the days when things were simpler...but that's the thing. I think it was because those days, for me, were simpler, not because I necessarily miss the 2000s!

Either way, it was pretty interesting to hear just how strict the cutoff was for boomers and Gen X was back in the day when it came from reaping the very best rewards and privileges that society had to offer.

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~inquiry wrote (thread):

Riffing on an old classic by The Who:

       people mock us with a frown
    (talkin' 'bout missed generation)

   just because we're date range bound
    (talkin' 'bout missed generation)

what they say and write seems awfully bold
    (talkin' 'bout missed generation)

        my oh my, I'm pigeon-holed
    (talkin' 'bout missed generation)

            missed generation
     this is missed generation, baby